Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign workers returning home to Denmark and Sweden brought such descriptions of the Reich's second city, blasted by 10,000 tons of bombs in seven night raids by the R.A.F., two daylight attacks by U.S. bombers. Dante's Inferno, said one, was incomparable with Hamburg. Entire city districts were wiped out: St. Pauli, known to sailors the world over for its roller coasters, shooting galleries, beer halls and other places of amusement; Altona, the "Red district" of pre-Hitler days, where Communists and Nazis had fought bitter, bloody battles on the streets; the harbor with its huge...
...Nazi leaders are less worried about the home front than they are about the state of the Wehrmacht's elite soldiery after all their campaigns and almost two years in Stalin's inferno. Desertions have increased but remain too few to be important. But they are sometimes spectacular: on two known occasions, Gestapo troops mopping up Soviet guerrilla bands found them led by German petty officers...
...Inferno. The plaintiff was chalk-haired, Roman-featured Federal Judge William Denman, 69-year-old chairman of World War I's U.S. Shipping Board. Jurist Denman accused General DeWitt...
Congratulations on "Heydrich's Inferno" . . . a piece of writing almost worthy of the great Dean Swift. This essentially non-Teutonic mixture of humor and hate is another hint that Germany is not going to win this...
...Heydrich's Inferno" is a masterpiece...